Information Technology - Technology Upgrades Rail Engineering & Maintenance

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Each capital project is measured on 15 evaluation metrics to better understand its impact on the region. Learn more about the metrics and see a legend for all measures here.

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The degree to which a project improves regional access to the region’s key destinations. Including jobs, retail, healthcare, recreation, and education.

The project improvements to existing assets to make them partially or fully accessible. Including station/stop and area improvements, vehicle accessibility, and accessible communications.

The project impact to ratings from the FTA Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM).

The project’s minor or major benefits to riders and what proportion of the agency’s riders will benefit from it.

The project impact on overall capacity, reflecting current and planned levels of utilization.

The project impact on reductions or offsets to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from transit operations.

Project impacts on land use and development, construction, and long-term jobs.

The distribution of project benefits to location(s) identified under the USDOT Justice40 Program.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

The project impact on operating costs.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

Project impact on maintenance or improvement of service speed and reliability, considering both direct and indirect impacts.

If required, whether or not the project complies with federal, state, local, or other regulatory mandates.

The project impact to climate benefits, such as a reduction in emissions, generated from mode shift to transit and away from private auto-use.

The project impact to average vehicle ages, compared with Service board benchmarks to prioritize replacing vehicles that are beyond their useful life.

Evaluation Metric Measure
Access to Key Destinations i
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Does not impact Access to Key Destinations

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Accessibility Improvement(s) i
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Project is not related to accessibility

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Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) i
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Asset(s) rated 2-3

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Benefit to Riders i
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Project does not impact riders

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Capacity Benefit and Need i
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Not related to capacity of transit operations or facilities

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Climate Agency Operating Impacts i
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Project does not effect GHG emissions

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Economic Impact i
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No economic impact

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Equity Based on Residential Geography i
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Project is not location specific or benefits entire service area

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Impact on Customer and Employee Safety i
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Project maintains current safety levels

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Impact on Operating Cost i
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No effect on operating cost or cost change undetermined

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Impact on System Security i
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Project maintains or replaces existing level of security

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Impact to Service Speed/Reliability i
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No impact on service speed/reliability

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Regulatory Requirements i
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No regulatory requirements met for this project

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Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts i
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Project has no impact on transit ridership

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Vehicle Useful Life i
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Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

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Project Description

Various Technology upgrades, such as: Replace RETS engineer computers with ones similar to Infrastructure Engineering at 567 be able to run CAD including using 3D modeling software (SolidWorks, CATIA, Polyworks). Needed for new car programs for which vendors increasingly are providing files in these formats. Improve Skokie server capacity for storage of larger files related to new car/overhaul programs, incident investigations. WiFi at various shops to allow class material to be accessible remotely from various classrooms and shops; live or remote demonstrations via classrooms will assist with troubleshooting and learning. New laptops are needed for instructors to properly address troubleshooting, event recorder and diagnostics. Tablets for repairers connected via WiFi to MMIS to allow easy access to maintenance manuals/bulletins/etc, quick parts ordering and work order updates.